Widely published freelance travel writer Catherine Marshall has won a second consecutive top award for travel writing in this year’s NRMA Kennedy Foundation Awards for Excellence in Journalism.
She accepted the award in front of a crowd of almost 600 journalists, sponsors and friends at the ninth annual awards presentation in the ballroom at Randwick racecourse on Friday evening for her February 2 Sydney Morning Herald article on gorilla trekking in East Africa .
She won the award last year for an article on a trans-Siberian rail journey. The 2019 Outstanding Travel Writing Award is sponsored by Randall Lui’s hotel marketing group RM Global Asia Pacific and comes with a lucrative travel prize to the winner.
Ms Marshall was a narrow winner over another freelancer, Craig Tansley, who won high praise from the judges for a fascinating article on a journey through Chilean Patagonia, published in the Sydney Morning Herald on May 18.
Third prize was awarded for Tracey Croke’s unusual tale about her mountain bike experience through Botswana’s wildlife safari region, which was published in Wild Magazine’s September 2018 issue.
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